Setting and brood coop.



W. L.- NIEMANN.

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APPLICATION FILED 00114, 1909. 9'79,992 Patented Dec.27,1910.

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W. L. NIEMANN.

SETTING AND BROOD 0001*.

APPLICATION FILED 00114. 1909.

979,992, Patented Dec. 27, 1910.

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WILLIAM L. NIEMANN, OF MOUNT OLIVE, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR 0F ONE-HALF TO IEDWARD F. NIEMANN, 0F MOUNT OLIVE, ILLINOIS;

SETTING AND BBOQD COOP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

PatentedDec. 27, 1910.

Application filed October 14, 1909. Serial No. 522,504.

a citizen of the United States of America,

residing at Mount Olive, in the county of Macoupin and State ofIllinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Settingand Brood Coops, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, formingpart of this specification.

My invention relates to a co'op for housing setting hens during thehatching periods, and their broods.

The invention has for its object the production of a coop of thisdescription that is of simple construction, may be readily transportedand stored when not in use in a knock down condition, which when inservice, may afford safe protection for the hen and her brood fromrodents and from the'weather, and in the use of which the hen and broodmay either have free ingress or egress into and from the coop, or beconfined therein with her brood or confined alone while the brood maypass freely from and into the coop.

In the drawings :-Figure I is a perspective view of my setting and broodcoop with both the ventilating and shield doors propped in. openpositions so that the doorway of the coop is unobstructed to permitpassage therethrough of a hen and her brood. Fig. II is a similar viewto Fig. I with the ventilating door closed and the shield door inelevated position to shelter the doorway. Fig. III is an enlargedsection taken on line III-III, Fig. I, through one of the hinges bywhich the shield door is supported. Fig. IV is an enlarged section takenon line IV' IV, Fig-I, and illustrating one of the hinges that connectsthe shield and ventilating doors. Fig. V is a front elevation of thecoop.

In the accompanying drawings :-1' is a side wall, 2 the front wall, 3the floor and 4c the cover of my setting and brood coop, the cover beingremovably attached to the walls and provided with a handle 6 forlifting. All of the parts thus far mentioned are preferably made ofsheet metal so that they may be inexpensively manufactured, and thewalls of the coop are connected by corner pieces 7, also preferably ofsheet metal, which are fitted to suitable flanges at the ends of thewalls. In the front wall of the coop is a doorway 8. through which thehen and her brood may enter into the coop, or depart therefrom; and thisdoorway is adapted to be protected by doors that will next be described.

9 is a hanger strip secured to the front wall above the doorway thereinand having an outwardly jutting inclined portion 10 in which areproduced apertures 11, (see Figs. I to III, inclusive,). The outwardlyjutting portion of the hanger strip is curled, as seen at 12, therebystifiening this portion of the hanger strip longitudinally, and the curlof the hanger strip serves to provide eificient pivots for the hinges ofthe door next to be referred to.

13 designates a shield door that is provided at its upper edge withcurled hinge leafs 14 which extend through the apertures 11 in thehanger strip 9 and which extend around the pivots 12 of said hangerstrip. The shield door .is, therefore, hinged to the hanger strip in amanner to permit of its being swung upwardly and clownwardly at thefront of the coop. 15 is a ventilating door that is connected to theshield door 13 by hinge rings 16 passing through the two doors attheirupper edges, aside from the hinge connections between the shielddoor and the hanger strip 9, thereby providing for the ventilating doorand shield door being moved combinedly with each other, or independentlyof each other. The ventilating door is preferably of open work sheetmetal, although it may be rendered of a ventilating type in any othersuitable manner; such as by making a frame of sheet metal and applying asheet of wire gauze to said frame.

17 designates a pair of props for the doors 13 and 15, and which arelocated at opposite sides of the doorway in the front wall of the coop.These props are in the main preferably of triangular shape, so as toprovide an awning in connection with the shield door and each isprovided at its rear edge with a rear vertical flange resting flatlyagainst the front wall of the coop and connected thereto by a singlepivot pin 18. The single pivot pin permits of the prop attached therebyto the front wall being os cillated in order that the top of the propmay be brought into position beneath one or both of the doors 13 and 15when they are elevated; and, to provide a suitable rest for the door ordoors, the props are provided at their upper edges with outturnedhorizontal flanges or ledges 19.

20 is a catch pivoted to the front wall of the coop beneath the doorway8 and adapted to be swung upwardly from the position seen in Fig. I tothe position seen in Fig. II to hold either one or both of the doors inclosed position.

In the practical use of my coop, with which a suitable pen or smallinclosure is preferably utilized, both of the doors 13 and 15 may besustained in elevated positions, as seen in Fig. I, through the mediumof the props 17, when it is desired to leave the doorway of the coopopen in order that free ingress and egress thereto and therefrom may befurnished. When the doors are in the elevated position mentioned, theshield door serves to prevent the entrance of rain through the doorwayto the interior of the coop and may also serve in hot weather to shieldthe interior of the coop from the rays of the sun. The entrance of rainand the hot rays of the sun are also restrained in part from entranceinto the coop by the props 17. In the event that it is desired toconfine and protect a hen or a hen and her brood in the coop with freeentrance of air thereinto, the ventilating door 15 may be held in closedposition, as illustrated in Fig. II and the shield door be alone held inelevated position. hen placing broody hens in the coop in daylight, itis desirable at times to entirely close the doorway of the coop todarken the coop for a period; and,

when this is desired, the shield door 18 may be closed in addition tothe closing of the ventilating door 15 and be held in closed position bythe catch 20. In such instances, ventilation for the interior of thecoop is furnished by one or more ventilators 21 in a wall or walls ofthe coop, through which air may pass to the interior of the coop.

I claim 1. A coop comprisingadoor way,a hangerstrip, located above thedoorway and having an outwardly utt-ing inclined portion, formed withapertures and a curl beneath the apertures providing pivots, and ashield door having curled leaves at its inner edge passed through theapertures of the inclined portion and conforming to the curl-pivots.

2. A coop comprising a doorway, a hanger strip, located above thedoorway and having an outwardly jutting inclined portion, a shield doorhinged to the inclined portion, a ventilatingdoor, and rings whereby theinner edges of the doors are hinged together flush with each other.

3. A coop comprising a doorway, a hanger strip, located above thedoorway and having an outwardly jutting inclined portion, a door hingedto the inclined portion, a prop formed with a vertical flange pivoted atone side of the doorway, with a horizontal ledge on which the door isadapted to rest and with a triangular body providing a side awningbeneath the ledge.

\VM. L. NIEMANN.

In the presence of E. C. NIEMEYER, En. I/V. Kinsnn.

